Apologies for the week of blog silence here. I was otherwise engaged: the page proofs for Dreaming in Code landed on my doorstep right before the holiday weekend, so that was my Labor Day weekend, and the evenings since.
It is a strange — and, I have to admit, wonderful — feeling to see this project, which I first conceived in the fall of 2002, near completion. From vague notion to typeset pages — in only four years! (The official publication date is Jan. 16, 2007.) Next up: bound galleys… blurbs… then books!
Now my energy turns from the page to the Web, where I will be building out the book’s site, at present mostly a placeholder, with excerpts and more. Here on this blog, I’m also planning to start a new project around the book’s theme — the mysterious difficulties of creating software — that I’ll be announcing soon. I don’t mean to be mysterious; there are just some details to be worked out between me, my blog and Salon.
In the course of seeing my 100,000-or-so words transformed from a Word document (it’s what the publishers want!) to a typeset galley, I’ve learned a bit more about what goes into making the text of a book look good and fit right. (My editor and the Crown designers did a great job with Dreaming in Code.) So when I recently stumbled on this blog by a book designer — addressing the realms of typography, castoffs and such — I took note. Fascinating stuff if the extent of your knowledge of publishing design is, like mine, drawn primarily from the newspaper world and the computer desktop.
[tags]Dreaming in Code, books, publishing[/tags]
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